And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee
concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws
thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of
the sanctuary.

In that ye have brought
into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my
bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all
your abominations.

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at
the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt
offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to
minister unto them.

Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of
Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against
them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

And they shall not come near unto me,
to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy
things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their
abominations which they have committed.

But the priests the
Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the
children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister
unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood,
saith the Lord GOD:

And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in
at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and
no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner
court, and within.

And when they
go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they
shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy
chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the
people with their garments.

And in controversy they shall stand in
judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall
keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my
sabbaths.

And the first of all the
firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your
oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first
of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.